Oilseed biobased products

We are pleased to offer to students, researchers, industry practitioners, and all who are interested in the worlds most versatile crop, the most complete and authoritarian book on soybeans Soybeans Chemistry, Production, Processing and Utilization. This is one of several books comprising the AOCS Monograph Series on Oilseeds published by AOCS Press of the American Oil Chemists Society, which provides the latest and most comprehensive information on plant sources of fats, oils and protein meals of vital importance in feeding the world and providing the many biobased products we consume every day. 

The impact of the vegetable oil biorefinery on our environment has to take an important part of the future industrialization of biobased products. The oilseed crops production has a positive effect on GHG emissions, but its influence on land uses needs to be evaluated to reach a sustainable economy. Water could become a rare commodity in a large number of locations and the consequences of the emergence of vegetable oil biorefineries on water supply have to be studied. The biodiversity is an important factor to be... 

As additional products are developed and appear profitable, they can often be added to existing product lines at existing facilities, for instance in a corn wet mill. Corn wet millers have steadily increased the number and variety of their products over the past two decades or so. This trend is likely to continue. Growth of new biobased products at oilseed crushing mills appears to have been much slower. 

Industrial oilseeds are viable feedstocks for the preparation of polymeric materials, particularly thermosetting polymers liquid-phase polymers that are cured irreversibly via heat, irradiation, or chemical reactions to form an insoluble polymeric network. Paints, coatings, adhesives, foams, and gels are commonly thermosets. Biobased feedstocks are receiving increasing attentions as replacements for petroleum in the preparation of thermosets and other polymers due to the reduced environmental impact associated with their derivation (no mining involved, approximately neutral in the net production of the greenhouse gas, CO2) and increased cost competitiveness. 

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